Free for members. Become one at cityreliquary.org/join.

Come laugh and gasp inside the mysterious, history-ious, and spacious City Reliquary backyard, with Malignant Humor and The Last Chance Dancers.

This is not a virtual event.

Join us for a night of raucous comedy and wild burlesque with some of New York’s funniest comics and most radical burlesque acts. Get ready to laugh, gasp, then laugh again.

Just-insanely-thick hot chocolate (with optional whisky and espresso shots) all night by Reliquary resident chef (and early Reliquary member) Sam Reiff-Pasarew.

First show is at 7:30pm and the second is at 9:00pm. Show is outdoors with no heating so please remember to wear 5 hats, 2 miles of scarves, and 17 jackets. It will be cold. Come prepared.

This event includes real burlesque, with professional burlesque dancers. Anyone is welcome, but please note there will be sexually explicit dancing and may be sexually explicit language.

SAFETY
Total attendance at one time will be capped. Numbers are subject to change slightly, have capped total volunteers, performers, and tickets sold to 22. Up to 5 at a time will be permitted indoors for restrooms, or to browse the museum. Otherwise everyone will be outdoors.

Facemasks must be worn when you are not seated, and at all times indoors.

Seats will be arranged in socially distanced "pods" based on the number of tickets purchased in each order. If you would like to sit with someone who ordered tickets separately for the same show, please email jacob@cityreliquary.org before the show with the name(s) on tickets you would like to be seated together.

Hand sanitizer will be available for all.

ACCESSIBILITY
The main entrance and indoor museum are entirely flat, but there are 4 steps up and 4 steps down to the backyard. The backyard is uneven but no major steps. Email jacob@cityreliquary.org we're happy to figure out how we can accommodate your needs.

WHAT IS THE CITY RELIQUARY?
Reliquaries typically house the ostensible bones of dead saints. We house the bones of New York City. From seltzer bottles to schist cores, roller skates from racially integrated rinks, and a burnt out lightbulb from the Statue of Liberty's torch. All these and many more artifacts are in our collection.

Since our founding in an apartment window in 2002 The City Reliquary has been collecting, preserving, and sharing pieces of New York City, for New Yorkers. Now more than ever the stories of every New Yorker need to be told.

You can first become a member for $10/month at cityreliquary.org/join then return to this page to find the price magically vanished. Or, buy a ticket and apply it directly toward a few months of membership to try it out. Membership is the way we will survive through and beyond this pandemic.

WHY MEMBERSHIP?
Because we can survive better on "subscriptions" than tickets.

COVID-19 has shifted The City Reliquary headfirst toward a member-supported financial model, because sustaining monthly (or annual) memberships are much more reliable and dependable than ticket sales and museum admissions.

In exchange for your ongoing support as a member, you'll receive free admission to the museum for you and your household anytime, free tickets to events, and—we hope—tiny New York City historical institution to call your own.

Join at cityreliquary.org/join.

WHAT ELSE?
Please come prepared to tip the performers, via cash or Venmo.

But the beer is seriously on the house, thanks to Brooklyn Brewery.